[PATCH 4.4 19/35] net: watchdog: hold device global xmit lock during tx disable

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Feb 22 2021 - 08:35:09 EST


From: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3aa6bce9af0e25b735c9c1263739a5639a336ae8 upstream.

Prevent netif_tx_disable() running concurrently with dev_watchdog() by
taking the device global xmit lock. Otherwise, the recommended:

netif_carrier_off(dev);
netif_tx_disable(dev);

driver shutdown sequence can happen after the watchdog has already
checked carrier, resulting in possible false alarms. This is because
netif_tx_lock() only sets the frozen bit without maintaining the locks
on the individual queues.

Fixes: c3f26a269c24 ("netdev: Fix lockdep warnings in multiqueue configurations.")
Signed-off-by: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3428,6 +3428,7 @@ static inline void netif_tx_disable(stru

local_bh_disable();
cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ spin_lock(&dev->tx_global_lock);
for (i = 0; i < dev->num_tx_queues; i++) {
struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, i);

@@ -3435,6 +3436,7 @@ static inline void netif_tx_disable(stru
netif_tx_stop_queue(txq);
__netif_tx_unlock(txq);
}
+ spin_unlock(&dev->tx_global_lock);
local_bh_enable();
}